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Nineteen years ago, a complacent United States sat back behind its ocean wall and watched Mussolini march through Ethiopia. Most Americans, having scarcely heard of Ethiopia, argued that this country should not get mixed up in other people's wars. One year ago, few Americans knew the difference between Viet-Nam and Viet-Minh. They only knew that France was fighting a guerilla war in Indo-China. Clearly, for the average citizen, here was someone else...
Although the Associated States are now virtually independent, the issue of colonialism remains the trump card in the Communist pack. As long as the Viet-Minh can claim that they are the only group fighting to rid Indo-China of French influence, they have a tremendous psychological advantage. The inescapable conclusion is that France will receive full Viet-Nam support only if it cuts even the last remaining strings that bind the Associated States to the French Union. Naturally, if this is done, the French will lose much of their will to continue fighting. Seven years of jungle war have...
Indo-China. In Indo-China, French Union forces have been fighting a costly and difficult military campaign against local Communist forces. It has been a gruelling struggle for the three young nations of Indo-China (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) and a severe drain on the manpower and resources of our old friends and allies, the French. The Communist threat in Indo-China is directed not only against the aspirations of the Indo-Chinese peoples as they emerge to nationhood, but menaces the whole of Southeast Asia and its rich raw-material resources. Britain has a strong and direct interest...
...renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than face that, he takes on a risky assignment in Indo-China: to drag out a French company's teak supply just ahead of the advancing Viet Minh. The Communists move faster than Crane ; they settle his case with bullets...
...guide Banjo One, Two & Co. into the drop zone. From Luciole, the zone looked pitifully small-500 meters at the southern end of the main airstrip-and the slightest miscalculation of wind or navigation could make a parachute, whatever its cargo, drift into the barbed wire or the Viet Minh lines. At intervals of a few seconds, sometimes minutes, there were more lights-delicate white fragments in the blackness. Some were Viet shells hammering the French positions. Some were French shells reaching out into the foothills, where the Communists were gathering for their third offensive. Flicks of light came...